Year of merger

[RickB]

What year did New Holland takeover or merge with Case IH?

New Holland NV completed the purchase of Case Corporation in the fourth quarter of 1999. It was not a merger, but an acquisition.

Any small square baler you find with CaseIH decals that is NOT an inline style will be a New Holland-built machine.

 

[Dill]

Before the New Holland merger, the IH hay line was merged with New Idea and sold at Ford dealers, for a couple years just to make things more confusing. A friend has a ford haybine which is a painted IH 1190. And supposedly the IH 435 baler that I run also had a New Idea counterpart.

 

[RickB]

And supposedly the IH 435 baler that I run also had a New Idea counterpart.

That is a fact.

 

[Dill]

Any idea what the model was? I'd really like to order parts from the local New Holland dealer. Since IH just changed their rules on drop shipping parts. I can only do that if I want to pay air freight. If not I have to get it ordered to a dealer than shipped to me.

 

[RickB]

Any idea what the model was? I'd really like to order parts from the local New Holland dealer. Since IH just changed their rules on drop shipping parts. I can only do that if I want to pay air freight. If not I have to get it ordered to a dealer than shipped to me.

You won't get parts for an IH 435 or its New Idea clone from a NH dealer; that baler predates the Case buyout and IH parts can't be bought at NH unless that part number is used on an NH machine (darned few). Your two choices are a CaseIH dealer for the 435 or an AGCO dealer for the New Idea model. I'm not positive, but perusing the knotter section of the NI 555/565 square baler parts manual shows the IH All-Twine knotter that the IH 435 baler uses.

AGCO Parts Books